I work as a U.S. government contractor and the agency I'm affiliated with uses Teams. I'd provide feedback through that route but that mechanism internal to the app has been disabled by the organization, so I will rant here.First, the good.Overall, the client works well. Chats are smooth and easy to organize in the view. Making and joining calls is pretty effortless and consistent barring network or other glitches. Webcam and audio are generally reliable and clear with only the rare robot voice. Reactions can be handy and fun in meetings, as can the GIFs (which seem to generally be curated to be work safe, which is a big plus). Now, the annoying, in decreasing order of priority.I am constantly mildly infuriated by the fact that Teams overrides my explicit selection for STATUS. If I select Available, I am that until I choose otherwise! There's a bit of a nuance to this in that this particular issue seems to recur once in a while, then go away. I've been a software developer, and there's a phenomenon where old bugs can, through carelessness or ineptitude, resurface when old code gets merged into new. Thus, I might go months without this niggling issue, then suddenly after a nightly or weekend update, it resurfaces to annoy me yet again.Next, automatically MUTING my microphone. No, do NOT do this, Teams! I have a headset with a physical, discrete mute button I can toggle at will. If I'm overlooking a setting to quash this particular annoyance, I'm all ears, but so far as I know this is an annoying default which seems to correlate with how many people are in the meeting I'm about to join. Past that threshold I don't need you to be my chaperone and muzzle me as I walk into meetings, thank you very much. That's about it. For its various annoyances, Teams does serve well for enterprise-level comms.
